Sunrise 6.12 am. Sunset 7.38 pm. Daylight Savings Time. We're getting 13 hours & 26 minutes of daylight or four hours and 11 more minutes of sunlight than we were getting the weekend of the Winter Solstice, on December 21, 2024, which is the shortest day of the year at 9 hours and 15 minutes of daylight. Spring began Thursday, March 20, 2025, which is also the Spring Equinox, when the day is half daylight and half dark.
See Easter link below for Manhattan Greek Orthodox Holy Friday processions.
Saturday, April 19, 2025 from 10 am - 3 pm - Governors Island Earth Day Replaces Easter Egg Hunt - on Governors Island - see details above in the NYC section.
Saturday, April 19, 2025 from 11 am to 2 pm - Easter Eggstravaganza - at Ferry Point Park at 10 Hutchinson River Parkway in the Throggs Neck neighborhood of the Bronx. They describe it as follows, "... food, games, giveaways, face painting, magic show, a large egg hunt ... Join in on the fun and get to know your local NYPD officers ...". Free. You can pre-register at - https://throggsneckcommunityalliance.org
See Easter link below for Staten Island Greek Orthodox Holy Friday processions.
Sunrise 6.31 am. Sunset 7.32 pm. Daylight Savings Time. We're getting 13 hours & 12 minutes of daylight or three hours and 48 more minutes of sunlight than we were getting the weekend of the Winter Solstice, on December 21, 2024, which is the shortest day of the year. Spring began Thursday, March 20, 2025, which is also the Spring Equinox, when the day is half daylight and half dark.
Saturday, April 12, 2025 there's an Easter Egg Hunt & Concert in Bay Ridge - organized by www.crossroadsbrooklyn.com in Bay Ridge - click MCAL link below for details.
Saturday, April 12, 2025 from 10 am to 12 noon - Easter Egg Hunt - at the Bartow Pell Mansion at 895 Shore Road in Pelham Bay Park. The hunts are four one hour long sessions starting every hour on the hour, costing $15 per child, and adults accompanying children are free. For details and tickets see - https://www.bartowpellmansionmuseum.org or click into the MCAL link below.
April 26, 2025 from 4 to 9 pm - Staten Island Eid Festival - at Snug Harbor at 1000 Richmond Terrace in the Randall Manor neighborhood of Staten Island. A celebration of the end of Ramadan including food, games, giveaways, raffles and a bazaar. For details and to rsvp copy & paste - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/staten-island-family-eid-festival-tickets-1311277699899 | https://snug-harbor.org
Sunrise 6.34 am. Sunset 7.24 pm. Daylight Savings Time. We're getting three hours and 37 more minutes of sunlight than we were getting the weekend of the Winter Solstice, on December 21, 2024, which is the shortest day of the year. Spring began Thursday, March 20, 2025, which is also the Spring Equinox, when the day is half daylight and half dark.
Saturday, April 5, 2025 from 2 pm to 4 pm - the 27th Annual Tartan Day Parade. Beginning at 6th Avenue at 44th Street, marching north to 55th Street in Midtown. The festivities begin the week preceding it and there's an after party. From 4.30 - 8.30 pm there's an after party. In 2024 it was at Sony Hall at 235 West 46th Street in Manhattan costing $109 which includes drinks and entertainment. This year it's been SOLD OUT. But the parade is free for all and no rsvp needed. For details see https://www.nyctartanweek.org/. Tartan Day parade in Manhattan.
Saturday & Sunday, April 5 & 6, 2025 from 11 am to 5 pm - Easter Egg Hunt - at Green Meadows at Alley Pond Environmental Center in Queens. Details coming.
Saturdays & Sundays [and a few select weekdays], March 29 - April 1, 2025 from 11 am to 8 pm - Luna Park opens in Coney Island. _ ALL BUT OPENING DATE UNCONFIRMED _ On Friday, April 18, 2025 the park opens daily from 11 am to 8 pm. For details and tickets see - https://lunaparknyc.com.
Saturday, April 5, 2025 from 2 to 4 pm - Book Talk - at the Garibaldi Meucci Museum at 420 Tompkins Avenue in the Rosebank neighborhood of Staten Island. The book is Chatterbox and it's written by Barbara Worton, who will take folks on a nostalgic walk back in time. For $5 / $10 tickets and details see - https://www.garibaldimeuccimuseum.com.jpg)
Sunrise 6.46 am. Sunset 7.17 pm. Daylight Savings Time. We're getting three hours and 18 more minutes of sunlight than we were getting the weekend of the Winter Solstice, on December 21, 2024, which is the shortest day of the year. Spring began last week on Thursday, March 20, 2025, which is also the Spring Equinox, when the day is half daylight and half dark.
New Album or New Project? The folks in the photo above or at right, reminded me of an album cover of the Ramones, which was a 1970's rock group based here in NYC.
Thursday - Sunday, March 27 - 30, 2025 from 5 to 9 pm Thursday, opening 11 am thereafter, closing at 7 pm Friday & Saturday & at 5 pm Sunday - IFPDA Print Fair - at the Park Avenue Armory at 643 Park Avenue at 66th Street on the UES of Manhattan. For event details and tickets copy & paste - https://ifpda.org / For location details see - https://www.armoryonpark.org
Friday, March 28, 2025 from 4 pm to 10 pm - DeKalb Market Hall - indoor market at DeKalb Market Hall at 445 Albee Square in the Downtown neighborhood of Brooklyn. Outdoors. For details see - https://www.brooklynpop-up.com
Saturdays, March 22 & 29, 2025 - Tavern Concerts - at the Tavern in Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island. Great old fashioned fun in an historic setting. For tickets and details see - https://www.historicrichmondtown.org.
Sunrise 6.58 am. Sunset 7.08 pm. Daylight Savings Time. We're getting two hours and 57 minutes more sunlight than we were the weekend of the Winter Solstice on December 21, 2024, which is the shortest day of the year. Spring began earlier this week on Thursday, March 20, 2025, which is also the Spring Equinox when the day is half lit and half dark.
Saturday, March 22, 2025 from 2 to 4 pm - Mayoral Forum: Whose City Is It? - at BRIC Brooklyn at 647 Fulton Street in the Fort Green neighborhood [blocks from Downtown] of Brooklyn. Hear the NYC Mayoral candidates live or on Zoom. Hosted by the Nation and Working Families Party. Free. For details see - https://www.thenation.com/events/mayoral-forum-2025/
Yonkers / Bronx _ Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 67th Annual Yonkers St. Patrick's Parade. The parade begins at 1 pm and marches up what they call the Emerald Mile, which is along McLean Avenue aka 240th Street / Nereid Avenue. The parade begins at Bronx River Road / Webster Avenue and marches west to Coyne Park in Yonkers. The Parade Dinner Dance precedes the parade by a week on Saturday, March 8, 2025. For details see - http://www.yonkersstpatricksparade.org or FB - https://www.facebook.com/McLeanAveParade/. St Pat's Day parades in and around Yonkers near the Bronx.
Sunrise 7.08 am. Sunset 7.02 pm. Daylight Savings Time. We're getting two hours and 39 minutes more sunlight than we were the weekend of the Winter Solstice on December 21, 2024, which is the shortest day of the year. Spring is next Thursday, March 20, 2025, when sunrise will be at 6.58 am and sunset at 7.08 pm. The true equinox, when we have equal amount of daylight and nighttime actually falls between March 16th and 17th.
Trump Tries to Withdraw Adams Case without Prejudice. So, consider this, these seven highly paid professional U.S. federal prosecutors forfeited their income and their positions, because they refused to follow the orders of Trump's Acting Deputy Attorney General, Emil Bove, who apparently was instructed by Trump to withdraw the case without prejudice.
Trump announced that the U.S. is exiting from the World Health Organization [WHO - helps manage global disease breakouts], cuttingthe budgets of the National Institute of Health [NIH - health / scientific research] and cutting the Center for Disease Control [CDC], without doing some sort of in-depth analysis first. Trump announced he's cutting most of the Department of Education. And he's announced he's going to try to cut the entire Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [CFPB].
NYC Weather. Sunrise 7 am. Sunset 5.20 pm. We're getting an hour and five more minutes of sunlight than we were the weekend of the Winter solstice in late December. Spring Forward Daylight Savings Time is Sunday, March 9th, 2025 - only four weeks away.
December 3, 2024 vs 11.29.24 / 
The City of Yes for Housing Opportunities bill passed yesterday afternoon / evening in the City Council Chambers at City Hall. The City of Yes or NYC Municipal Legislative Bill - L.U. 181 & Res 689 - App. N 240290 ZRY (City of Yes Zoning for Housing Opportunity) amendment of the Zoning Resolution of the City of New York, modifying multiple Sections to expand opportunities for housing within all zoning districts, Citywide. *
NYC Weather Forecast as of 11.1.24 - Sunrise 7.27 am & Sunset at 5.51 pm. The temperature high on Friday will be in the high 70's and then hover around 60 for the rest of the weekend. The temperature lows will descend gradually over the weekend from 50 degrees on Friday to the low 40's the rest of the weekend. Winds will range from 10 - 20 mph Friday, 5 - 10 mph Saturday and 3 - 5 mph on Sunday.
Project 2025 was put together by a group, of very conservative, right wing groups working in concert. This includes, according to a CNN report, 140 Trump affiliates, of which more than a dozen played some role in the first Trump Administration.
4. 'Cut the growth of the federal government to reduce inflation'. First take note that the last time Donald Trump was president, he significantly increased government spending, and super-sized the national debt from $20 trillion to $28 trillon - breaking all records by a landslide. So quite frankly, this is simply not believable.
If you've been reading my work, especially in recent times, you'll notice how increasingly frustrated I have become with TV News. If you want to know why America doesn't seem quite right, it's because the TV folks rarely seem to do any real reporting. In times gone by, the real reporting was done by the journalists working for the newspapers, and then the TV newspeople essentially rewrote and then reread the newspaper journalists' work on air.
It takes one to know one.
October 23, 2024 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Real Estate & Business / Gotham Buzz NYC.
October 22, 2024 / Government & Politics / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
by America's 44 previous presidents in the prior 225 years of the nation's existence.
Updated October 5, 2024 vs 10.4.24 / 
September 22 - 30, 2024 - The United Nations General Assembly begins. Dignitaries and diplomats will begin convening in earnest Sunday. Already this Friday 9/20/24, various groups that want to be heard, will be protesting the mishandling of their issues by various governments around the world. Road closures along the east side of Midtown, near the U.N. [generally in the low 40's streets], begin as early as Saturday evening at 8 pm, so be prepared for extra traffic jams in Manhattan.
Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros
Last MoMA Summer Sounds Concert & Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit Closed in Manhattan; Oracabessa Festival, Rockaway Beach Music Series, U.S. Open, Sri Krishna Janmashtami, Queens Boro Dance Festival & Queens Jazz Trail Concert in Queens; West Indian American Day Parade & J'ouvert, Battle of Brooklyn, 24th Street Festival and Coney Island Fireworks in Brooklyn; Latin Foto Festival in Hunts Point, Bronx Writers' History at the Bronx Historical Society and Orchard Beach in the Bronx; and Do Portugal Circus at Staten Island Mall, the British are Coming & the Richmond County Fair on Staten Island
August 30, 2024 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analytis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
NYC Weather Forecast as of 8.30.24. Sunrise 6.20 am & Sunset at 7.31 pm. Some rain expected Saturday night and early Sunday morning, so it should be a good weekend. Temperatures in the 80's during the day and 70's at night. A gentle breeze and humidity climbs gradually during the weekend, falling again on Monday.
In the photo at right, is one of Historic Richmond Town's finest citizens, doing his thing in the woodwork shop. The man reminded me of, Geppetto, the kind and fatherly woodcarver who created Pinocchio, the fictitious wooden puppet who comes alive.
Saturday 8.31.24 Final Weekend Edition @ 11.45 am. All done. Looks to be a fair weather weekend with plenty of fun things to do as the unofficial end of the summer arrives. Enjoy your three day / end of summer weekend. Fall events to follow in September.
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August 27, 2024 / 
NYC Weather Forecast as of 7.19.24. Sunrise 5.41 am & Sunset at 8.22 pm. The temperature highs will be in the mid 80's all weekend, while the temperature lows will be in the low 70's all weekend. Winds will be a light breezy 4 - 7 mph all weekend. The humidity will be 40% - 60% on Friday, rising to 50% - 70% on Saturday and Sunday. No rain is in the weekend forecast. Not a bad weekend.
On Wednesday, July 24, 2024, from 8 am to 8 pm, there's a protest against alleged War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu at the Capitol in in Washington, D.C.
As I conducted my research, I decided that NOT to inquire about the Mayor's - seemingly unappreciated or underappreciated - Herculean effort to manage the huge influx of immigrants into NYC. This situation, turned crisis, began when Texas Governor Greg Abbott began bussing immigrants from Texas border towns, beginning in August 5, 2022, to NYC. Governor Abbott began transporting immigrants here without any communication nor coordination with NYS Governor Hochul or NYC Mayor Adams.
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The Jouvert then marched east along Empire Boulevard before turning south on Nostrand Avenue and terminating at Winthrop. I arrived a bit before noon, at Empire Blvd and Nostrand, where the Jouvert Parade had already passed. The Jouvert Parade involves participants adorning themselves with paint and powder, sometimes sharing it with others in a style that reminded me of the Indian Holi celebration.
Four years ago, on August 31, 2019, I visited the Floyd Bennett Airfield with the intention of doing a story on it, which - until now - I had not had an opportunity to do. On that visit, I biked the airfield, took photos in both the museum and peeked through the dusty windows of the hangars and warehouses on the airfield, to photographed our recent past.
Weather. There's a 60% probability of about a third inch of rain beginning sometime between 3 and 6 pm Sunday. The rest of the weekend should be clear. The temperature highs will be around 80 and the lows in the mid 60's all weekend. Humidity will range from 50% - 60% all weekend, except Sunday night when it rises to near 80% due to the rain. The winds will vary throughout the weekend from about 15 mph Friday, to 5 mph Saturday and 10 mph Sunday. All in all, not a bad weather weekend.
